Top SOLIDWORKS New Features from 2016 until 2022 | Part I

A List of Favourable SOLIDWORKS What’s New Features From 2016 – 2022

Every year, SOLIDWORKS will introduce many new features for the users to improve their design process and time. In this blog, we will be providing a list and summarisation for every useful feature that had been introduced over the past 6 years. The list is divided into 5 main categories which are User Interface, Parts, Assemblies, Drawings and SOLIDWORKS Simulation.

Today, let’s talk about the User Interface!

User Interface

• • • Breadcrumbs Menu
      Breadcrumbs Menu is a tool to help navigate an assembly and locate what you’re looking for quickly and efficiently.

• • • Section View
      Section View is now equipped with a triad manipulator so that user can justify the location for sectioning easily.

• • • Parent and Child Dependencies
      With this feature that can be turned on or off, users can now see the features that are related to specific features selected.

• • • Mating Component
      Mating Component automatically changes the selected component transparency for better view on selecting another entity.

• • • What’s Wrong
      Now, when you select error features, it has a pop-up to show on the error/warning information. This will help users to understand more on what needs to be repaired.

• • • Home Tab
      Home Tab is now equipped with a recent file and some filter option.

• • • Shortcut Menu
      In order to customise shortcut commands, you just need to drag and drop the icon to the shortcut menu. There is also a search tab to search for any command instead of hovering into top right corner.

• • • Coordinate System
      Coordinate System can be set using numeric values from axis. Before this, you can only can use by selecting existing entities to define the coordinate system.

• • • Assembly/Components Reference Geometry Shortcut Button
      When you are using the Q button, it will present the assemblies or components reference geometry such as plane and origin.

Learn more here or reach out to us at talk2us@cadcam.com.my for further information. See you in Part II !